“Confusion in the Figuration of the Autistic Subject: A Critique of ?i?ek’s construction of Autism through a reading of HBO’s Temple Grandin and The Horse Boy” Versions of this paper were presented at the Popular Culture Association of Canada, Niagara Falls, May 10-13, 2012 and the 2012 ?i?ek Studies Conference, April 28-29, 2012.